Canada Jay

• It stores food by gluing it to branches with its saliva, which acts as a preservative: it makes tens of thousands of caches every summer and recovers them under the snow through the winter thanks to an extraordinary spatial memory.
• It breeds in the depths of the boreal winter, in February and March, incubating eggs at thirty degrees below zero: it is one of the birds that breeds in the coldest conditions on the planet.
• It is Canada's unofficial national bird following a public vote in 2016, although the official designation was never formalised.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Boreal spruce and fir forest of Canada, Alaska and the northern United States

Sexual maturity

12 months

Gestation / incubation

17 days

Litter / clutch size

3

Sources consulted: IUCN Red List · Animal Diversity Web · Wikipedia (es)